A Request, Answered

Recently my husband, Todd, asked me what was for dinner. I can't remember what the answer was, but I could tell by his face that he wasn't happy about it. Maybe he even said, "Oh." "What answer would make you happy?" I countered. He listed off a few things: chicken, spaghetti with meat sauce, burritos, lasagna. Simple things, you know? So I set off to make him happy, first by making burritos. A reader, Laurie, had left a recipe in the comments for wraps that, after about half a minute in the microwave, would make a good burrito. And that's what we had last night.

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I mixed cooked rice and chicken, rinsed and drained black beans, salsa and lots of shredded Monterey Jack cheese, then stuffed the mixture in tortillas and rolled them up. Warmed them in the microwave and we were ready to eat. It took me a couple tries to get the proportions right, though. I started out with far too much rice, followed closely by too many beans. Had to up the chicken, salsa and cheese quite a lot. Laurie adds corn to hers, and I wish I had remembered that when I was making these, because that extra bit of freshness would've been delicious. We were very happy with what we had, though.

Though there's no such straightforward burrito recipe on the web site, I did find a few variations that looked like fun. We have egg burritos for breakfast a lot, though we rarely add lettuce to them, so that's a new twist. The burrito pockets, which tuck burrito-type filling into pizza dough, sound novel. The burrito salad reminds me of the taco salad that Todd occasionally requests, though our version omits the tortilla in favor of tortilla chips.